Employee and employer responsibilities regarding manual handling

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations require employers to avoid, assess and reduce the risk of injury from manual handling. Previous page Training Next page MSDs in more detail. The law sets out how employers must deal with risks from manual handling: avoid hazardous manual handling, so far as is reasonably practicable; assess the risk of injury from any hazardous manual.

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations require employers to avoid, assess and reduce the risk of injury from manual handling. Previous page Training Next page MSDs in more detail. Under the OHS Act, employers must consult with employees when identifying hazardous manual handling and making decisions about risk control. Your employer must review (and, where necessary, revise) your risk controls if things change, if there is a report of manual handling related injury in the workplace, or at the request of a health and safety representative. Your employer's duties are set out in The Manual Handling Operations Regulations (amended). These Regulations require your employer to apply control measures to prevent or reduce the risk of injury to you from manual handling of loads. The Regulations set out a three-step approach your employer should take: Step 1: avoid the need for any manual handling involving risk of injury, "so far as is reasonably practicable”.

٠٥‏/٠١‏/٢٠٢١ All employers have a legal duty to protect their employees from injury caused by manual handling operations. 'Manual handling' can refer to. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the responsibility for worker one third of all reported accidents are in relation to manual handling injuries? Employers must also: so far as reasonably practicable, avoid the need for employees to undertake manual handling.